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Barr: Trump tweets on cases make it 'impossible' to do job
WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr took a public swipe at President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying that the president's tweets about Justice Department prosecutors and cases "make it impossi...
Feb 13, 2020
Conciliation report urges teachers, government to meet on classroom issues
Teachers and the government are not on the same page in terms of writing classroom size and composition into a contract, but both sides agree on the urgency of meeting to address those issues beyond t...
Feb 13, 2020 (File photo/CKOM News Staff)
Toronto Argonauts, Montreal Alouettes exchange kickers
The Toronto Argonauts and Montreal Alouettes swapped kickers Thursday. Toronto acquired kicker/punter Boris Bede from Montreal for kicker Tyler Crapigna. Bede hit 31-of-35 field goals last s...
Feb 13, 2020
Canada Soccer schedules news conference amidst speculation of international game
Canada Soccer has called a news conference for Friday in Langford, B.C., with the expectation that is to announce a men's international in March. Men's coach John Herdman is due to address the media a...
Feb 13, 2020
Protestors walk through North Battleford in support of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs
As demonstrations in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en Nation hereditary chiefs are taking place across Canada, local organizers have rallied together for a walk through downtown North Battleford to sh...
Feb 13, 2020 Today’s walk in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs is one of many like it taking place across Canada this week. (Martin Martinson/battlefordsNOW Staff)
High-tech companies eyeing supply chains as coronavirus outbreak continues
OTTAWA - High-tech companies in Canada and around the world are eyeing their supply chains as the impact of the novel coronavirus in China on manufacturing plants is starting to be felt. The...
Feb 13, 2020
Trump nominates new ambassador to Canada to fill post vacant since August
WASHINGTON - Aldona Z. Wos, a former Manhattan physician, Republican fundraiser and North Carolina lawmaker who once was George W. Bush's ambassador to Estonia, has been nominated by Preside...
Feb 13, 2020
Iraq's approval of expanded NATO mission 'very positive,' Sajjan says
OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is hailing the Iraqi government's decision to let NATO stay in the country as a "very positive development," weeks after Iraq's legislators demanded f...
Feb 13, 2020
High-tech companies eyeing supply chains as coronavirus outbreak continues
OTTAWA - High-tech companies in Canada and around the world are eyeing their supply chains as the impact of the novel coronavirus in China on manufacturing plants is starting to be felt. The...
Feb 13, 2020
Prosecutors seek nearly 5 years for former Baltimore mayor
BALTIMORE - Federal prosecutors want the disgraced former mayor of Baltimore to be sentenced to nearly five years in prison for the scheme involving sales of her self-published "Healthy Holly" childre...
Feb 13, 2020